A North Korean official has been executed with a flame-thrower, South Korean media has reported. He is one of up to 11 senior party officials with close ties to Jang Song-taek — Kim Jong-un’s recently purged uncle...

North Korea is poised to execute 200 high-ranking officials loyal to ousted eminence grise Jang Song-taek, a source said Tuesday. Some 1,000 members of their families could be sent to concentration camps under the North’s barbaric system...

A magnitude five earthquake has been detected 132km (80 miles) from the Korean peninsula early on Tuesday morning, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) has said. The quake, which was said to have occurred at approximately 03:48...

North Korea said it executed leader Kim Jong Un’s uncle Jang Song Thaek after a military trial convicted him of trying to overthrow the regime, the most senior figure to be purged since Kim took power nearly two...

Japan will set up a new amphibious military unit and deploy unarmed surveillance drones in its south-west, where it faces a row with China over disputed islands, according to drafts of the nation’s latest defence plans seen on Wednesday. The...

The ouster of North Korean eminence grise Jang Song-taek was evidently part of a wider purge that also resulted in the execution of another of Jang’s confidants, the Mainichi Shimbun reported Wednesday. The paper quoted a source...

China’s military is holding large-scale military maneuvers near the North Korean border amid new signs of political instability in Pyongyang. U.S. military intelligence assets in Asia—including satellites, aircraft and ships—are monitoring the war games by the 39th...

New details of the suffering of political prisoners has emerged with experts saying: “Torture is rampant, women are raped and public execution is common place.” A guard, known only as Mr Lee, has broken his silence about...

The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is believed to have dismissed an uncle, a man key to his rise to power, South Korean politicians said, in a move that could help consolidate his power base with a...

North Korea marked on Friday the third anniversary of an artillery attack on a South Korean island with a vow to respond to what it called any similar provocation with a strike on the South Korean presidential compound....